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Straightforward Advanced
Straightforward is Macmillan's back-to-basics, six-level general English course for adult and young adult learners. It has a clear structure and is designed to be easy for both the teacher and student to use.
'A clearly presented coursebook, stacked with classy ideas.'
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Straightforward Advanced: Competitive Eating.
The following activity is a sample lesson
from the new Straightforward Advanced level, available in January 2008.
What the lesson is about:
Theme: An eating competition and doing things to excess
Speaking Pairwork: roleplaying an interview with Sonya Thomas, a world eating champion
Reading: Me and my big mouth: a magazine article about Sonya Thomas
Vocabulary: Excess
The Straightforward Guide to Dictation and Translation.
Dictation and translation are classroom techniques that can be used in a large number of different ways and for a wide variety of purposes.
A serious accusation against using dictation and translation in the language classroom is that these activities are essentially boring and demotivating for learners. It seems we all have a very strong mental image of a boring old language teacher giving dictation upon dictation or forcing us to translate pages and pages of text.
However, we believe that both of these techniques still have much to offer modern language classrooms. As with so much of what takes place in language lessons, it is not so much a question of what we do as how we do it. The sample activities below show that dictation and translation can be used to achieve many aims: practice of the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening (either individually or in combination) or focusing on aspects of language (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation).
Dictation: Whistle Stops
Elementary and above
Translation: Reverse Translation
Pre-intermediate and above
